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You couldn't live without it at age 18. Now you're 28, the VP of a prestigious bank, engaged to be married next summer, and you've found the most incredible strapless wedding gown that shows off your flawless, tan shoulders and arms - and a glaring tattoo of barbed wire circling your upper left appendage. You're way past regret. What to do?Here are four options for taking away your tattoo blues.Make-upWithout question, make-up is the quickest, easiest and most painless way to eliminate your tattoo. This works best for those who don't have the...

Everyone complains these days about how busy they are, but how productively are they using their time. Anyone who has ever worked in commission sales soon discovers that there are two kinds of work; busy-work and profit-work. Pareto's Principle says that 80% of our results come from 20% of our efforts. It's been my observation that when it comes to modern work practices Pareto's Principle is optimistic. Here are 5 questions to ask yourself during your working day. Question 1: Is what I am doing now the best choice of activity to help me achieve...

Microsoft is happy to announce that pre-orders for the highly-anticipated Xbox 360 exclusive Halo 3 have surpassed even the most optimistic expectations, setting records at almost every retailer.Although it is still hard to believe that the launch of Halo 3 will shatter the record established by The Burning Crusade (World of Warcraft’s expansion, launched on January 17 this year) which has sold more than 2.4 million copies in the first 24 hours of availability, it’s clear that the Xbox 360 exclusive will be by far the most successful launch for...

Harry Potter fans across the country enthusiastically snapped up copies of the final volume of the book, which broke all records to register a sale of over 1.7 lakh copies on the first day of its release.''Never in the publishing history has India witnessed such a frenzied reaction to any book. We have already sold over 1.7 lakh copies today,'' said Himali Sodhi, Head of Marketing, Penguin, which is the distributor of Harry Potter and the Deathly...

With the announcement this week that Mitsubishi are planning to show a laser projection TV at the 2008 consumer electronics show consumers are once again being tantalised with technology that promises superior pictures to Plasma and LCD. Using a red, blue and green laser rather than white-light mercury lamps to generate images the advantages of laser technology are brighter and deeper images on larger,...

There's never been anything like Harry Potter. "I think of Rowling as being almost the Second Coming," says Scott Rice, professor of literature at San Jose State University. "Her books have reminded people of the pleasure of reading, gotten millions of kids all around the world to know the reward of reading. People need to be reminded there are rewards and benefits in reading that you don't get anywhere else." Young wizard Potter is about to cast another spell. Legions of his fans are eagerly waiting for July 21, the day when "Harry Potter...

The fifth Harry Potter fantasy adventure, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is far and away the best so far. Genre : AdventureRun Time : 138 minutesRated : MCountry : United KingdomDirector : David YatesActors : Daniel Radcliffe,Rating : stars-4 Trailer: Harry Potter and the Order of the PhoenixThe fifth Harry Potter fantasy...

Students shy away from pursuing Science courses as they are afraid of narrowing their career options. DT finds out more about this trend from students, teachers and counsellors doweshowbellyad=0; RIGHT CHOICE - NOMORE: Science courses are not popular choices with the college goers any more (Agencies Photo) Science courses are going abegging in many colleges, including the top ones who've resorted to a third...

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Wands at the ready: Harry leads his Dumbledore's Army cohorts Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which opens in cinemas in July, sees Harry's school friends taking a more central role in the battle against the evil Lord Voldemort. Calling itself Dumbledore's Army, the group meets in secret to learn how to battle the Dark Arts. Actors Bonnie Wright, 16, (Ginny Weasley), Matthew Lewis,...

In April of 1987, a woman in Westchester County gave birth to a little girl. Among the traits she passed on to her baby were curly black hair and a wide, toothy smile, with an upper lip shaped like the double arches of a child's drawing of a bird in flight.She also passed on a deadly disease that had been named only a few years earlier: AIDS. The mother, a prostitute, had probably contracted it from a dirty heroin needle. More than 4,000 Americans...

New Delhi: The five HIV positive children who were forced to stop their classes at a school in Pampady in Kerala due to objections from parents of other students, have been re-admitted them following public outcry.The children, aged between five and 11, had to make do with private lessons at their charity home after the school turned them away. "There were some opposition for these children from Asha Kiran to go to school,” says Father T C Yohanan...

Japanese high-tech giants Canon Inc and Toshiba Corp said that they have decided to postpone indefinitely the launch of a new type of flat television panel which is mired in legal wrangling.SED television sets were due to be introduced in Japan in the fourth quarter of 2007. No new launch date was given. "Reasons for the postponement include prolonged litigation currently underway in the United States and efforts to establish mass-production technology aimed at realising further cost reductions," a Canon statement said. The delay forced Toshiba...

Wind powerWind power is the conversion of wind energy into more useful forms, usually electricity using wind turbines. At the end of 2006, worldwide capacity of wind-powered generators was 74,223 megawatts; although it currently produces less than 1% of world-wide electricity use, it accounts for approximately 20% of electricity use in Denmark, 9% in Spain, and 7% in Germany. Globally, wind power generation more than quadrupled between 2000 and 2006.Most modern wind power is generated in the form of electricity by converting the rotation of turbine...

Nanogenerator Fueled by VibrationsAn array of zinc-oxide nanowires that generates current when vibrated with ultrasonic waves could provide a new way to power biological sensors and nanodevices. Using ultrasonic waves to vibrate an array of zinc-oxide nanowires, researchers at Georgia Tech have made a tiny generator that can produce direct current. By taking advantage of the fact that zinc-oxide nanowires are piezoelectric--they can convert mechanical...

Providing Web Services: Moving Away From PlaceDuring the early years of the Web, before content had semantic meaning, sites were developed as a collection of “pages.” Sites in the 1990s were usually either brochure-ware (static HTML pages with insipid content) or they were interactive in a flashy, animated, JavaScript kind of way. In that era, a common method of promoting sites was to market them as “places”—the Web as a virtual world complete with online shopping malls and portals.In the late 90s and especially the first few years of the 21st...

Crawling robot reveals how fish evolvedThe first animal to crawl onto land from the ocean probably looked a bit like today's salamander, and researchers have wondered how it was able to switch from swimming to walking. Now, European scientists have built a robot with a primitive electric nervous system that they say mimics that change in motion. The robot doesn't look much like a salamander it's nearly a yard long and made of nine bright yellow plastic segments each containing a battery and microcontroller but it does seem to move like one. The...

With only the formalities to be completed for Vodafone to acquire a controlling stake in Hutch-Essar (HEL), India will soon become its third largest market with 24.4 million subscribers after Germany and the United States.However, given the rate at which HEL’s subscriber base is growing it won’t be long before the Indian operations overtake these two countries to emerge as Vodafone’s top market. HEL is adding over a million new users to its base every month. Vodafone will now have a 22.1% marketshare of the 110 million-plus GSM space in India....